Film/video
first place
video sketchbook
March-June 2020
melissa mcClung
During this surreal moment in history, every day comes with a new emotion and a new narrative. If my job as an artist is to reflect the world in real time, it seems only fitting to “sketch” days as they come and go. My Video Sketchbook is a diary of four months in quarantine, filtered through my imagination via original footage and animations, archival footage, and stock images. In each entry, I hold moments in my hand and examine them before they shape-shift and flutter away.
SECOND PLACE
Togolese
Storytelling
Good and Evil
karina dise
Storytelling about good and evil just like it's told in the Togolese culture.
Afri(K)que's philosophy is to work with women and girls locally and internationally by presenting their pieces of art to the world therefore fighting against hunger and poverty which affects many children. Our priority is to work with socially and economically disadvantaged women artists and be their voice.
THIRD PLACE
hugging me, hugging you
michael osgood
Hugging Me, Hugging You is a short looped video made using coding and video manipulation. There are two recorded videos, one of myself and one of a close friend, hugging the air while wearing virtual reality headsets. Using a Java-based programming language called Processing, I spliced the videos together horizontally, interleaving the two videos. The result is us hugging in a ghostly fashion. Hugging Me, Hugging You creates an intimate moment artificially.
While I am grateful to be able to actually hug Devon, my friend and housemate, the pandemic has made such acts impossible if not immoral with so many people we care about. Sometimes the best we can do to embrace is through our technological devices. We spend time on Zoom, read and send texts and make phone calls. And while these technologies are essential, we know they are not entirely substitutable to the acts they seek to mimic. They do not allow us to touch, feel, or physically be with the people we love. As we flow through this pandemic and our technological progress, I worry we will lose touch with this fact, if we have not already. No matter what happens I hope the art of hugging will not be forgotten.